Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Time: examples by other artists

"receeding" by Marc Adamus
Bandon Oregon
The length of this exposure makes  the photograph.  It creates lines that would not otherwise be there, guiding your eyes to the rocks in the distance.  It also saturates the colors of a sunset that was likely mediocre.
4-seasons-1-tree (anonymous)
1 shot trying to show how the world changes with time.
Istanbul, 1972 by "Ken Josephson" accession number: 2003:55.8  gelatin silver print 6.5x9"
This image captured time for me.  Something about how there must have been movement at some time, but we can't tell if it is now or if it was a lot of motion over a long time really is compelling for me.
Jeff Wall: Afghanistan
Jeff wall really froze this soldier in an infinite life of urgency.  A long exposure would have resolved the terror of the shot, but as they said on the radio: time stops sometimes and it seems like time has stopped for him because he is in such a terrifying moment.
Andreas Gursky
May Day V (2006)
I love Andreas Gursky.  He captured the different rates of passing of time for 100 people all in one shot. Some are moving, some are not.
Abelardo Morell "Custom House"
The cars are not even visible because of the length of this exposure (approximately 8 hours)
Na and pa time by "wild particle" taken 8-12-2009
Is this a diptych?  I think it is interesting to view time as they talked about in the radio show:  something which is relative to the viewer.  How interesting that he chose to make the old image a color image and the new them black and white!
Mark Tweedie "Harvest" taken March 1, 2009 pinhole
The boy disappears.  Is it 2 shots or did he take such a long exposure that he could walk away without any track of his movement?
Golden Gate by "iseemooi"
The photograph doesn't try to trick you, but they compare time with this quartic.
Ethan Nonomura October 2010 digital
I'm posting this one because I want to tell you that I tricked you all!  It looks like I'm biking on the treadmill and I am, but I have the treadmill running at 1 mph.  Does it look like it?  I didn't think so.  This was somewhere from a 1-4 second exposure (I don't remember which because I took this shot several times).

Thursday, October 7, 2010

material matters

NOTE: I did not take any of the photographs in this post.

This is a pinhole image by Mark Tweedie Paper negative pinhole titled “pinhole – jan 1"  Taken in 2008

I think this is a cyanotype, but it might be a gum bichromate image by Sandra Davis taken in June(?)
This is a cyanotype on fabric done by James Mott on March 14, 2010
This Photograph was hand-colored by Joanne Domka.  She is a hand-colored photography specialist.  It is titled Construction.  I don't know the year or the size.
Hand-colored image: Sidewalk View, Ginza Dori, Tokyo ca. 1925

Title: Protuberencia // color 4x5 landscape pinhole photo by  IMRE BÉCSI
This is a pinhole image from another great pinhole artist.  Check out more of his AMAZING pinhole images at  http://chriskeeneyphoto.com/blog/2010/03/imre-becsi-march-2010-–-featured-pinhole-photographer/
Title: Homage to Man Ray // 6x9 pinhole photo by John Fobes

Edithe Beutler's "Coconut Climbers" hand colored photograph circa 1940's

SKU: VRP_027

This rare and beautiful image is skillfully reproduced here for the firs time ever directly from the original! Considered a master of Hawaiian handcolored photography, Edithe Beutler original photographs rarely turn up on the market for sale. To our knowledge, there are less than six originals of this image in exisence.

14.5" X 18"

Van Dyke Brown print cyanotype on Arche Platine paper. Analogical negative with interpositive on paper.

NORIKO OHBA  All I know is that this image is at least as old as 2008.  I love how long it takes to figure out what you're looking at.

I think the images were taken in Japan and I think this one is titled "waveswinger"
it is, of course, a pinhole.



Pinholes

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I think the tripod was wobbly and I was a bit rushed taking these.  All the same, here are the 4 pinhole shots taken on 4x5 black and white film ISO 400 with a 1mm pinhole camera on Wednesday October 6, 2010.  I'm not sure how they got so scratched up.  Is it common for them to get scratched so easily?  I tried to protect them...